When we're forced to wait, we feel an intensity because we have to surrender control. But in Psalm 40, David reminds us we can wait patiently for the LORD, because despite our desperate situation, there is deliverance in Jesus.

God created the enormous heavens and mysterious earth. He saw mankind, He sees you, He sees each of us throughout all time, and sent His only Son to be born in a humble stable. Jesus died on the cross for each of us, because God loves us.

The Heavenly King and Royal Son, and the HOPE of Christ this Advent season.

As we wrap up Daniel, we find more details about the challenges that lay ahead for Christians. No matter the chaos, we continue to hold firm to our belief in Jesus, because our future hope is built on all that Jesus accomplished and will continue to accomplish for us.

Chapters 7-12 take the thrust of chapters 1-6 and put them into fresh perspective. But the message is the same: God is sovereign and we can have hope! But even when God lays out the future, like Daniel, we often still have doubts. The beauty is that those doubts don't have to hinder us from living faithfully and joyfully.

Our God delivers us from evil, delivers on his promises, delivers love and provision, delivers us the Way, the Truth and the Life through Jesus and he rescues us from ourselves, rescues us

from evil. This doesn’t mean that God will rescue us from every danger or every evil, but he delivers and rescues us from the things that separate us from him and his perfect love.

It takes only 31 verses in Aramaic to describe the events leading up to the fall of the Babylonian empire. The LORD weighed him out and found him lacking. As a result of the king's pride and mockery his days were numbered and his kingdom divided. But the same judgment against the king is the same judgment we each face apart from Christ. For we all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23). While in Daniel God reveals great mysteries, we are reminded that the greatest mystery ever revealed - whether past, present, or future - is that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

God is full of both grace and truth. His desire for us to be drawn near to Him and to be loved by Him. Yet, as King Nebuchadnezzar learns, we are called to be humble before God.

Christians are pressured to conform to the culture of the world, every day. How might your commitment to God be a witness to others where you live, work, study, and play?

Some things may seem impossible, while still some things actually are impossible. The good news is that there is a God who reveals mysteries and makes the impossible possible. The greatest of which is human salvation.